- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Drop Xorg

- DESCRIPTION: I don't care whether it's Wayland or MIR, just for the love of god commit to it and end the pile of shit Linux on the desktop has been chained to for over 20 years. I don't know what went wrong, that you went from "we'll do it this release" to not doing anything for 2 years, and it hurt the entire community.

Disregard the petty squabblers who most likely haven't read a line of either the Wayland or Mir source code. Just come up with a solution that's well engineered and wins backing from NVidia, Intel and AMD. (I assume you already had that, because if not, why announce Mir at all?)

Also, please don't forget about the Desktop, you're definitely winning a lot of ground amongst developers. Container technology is making Ubuntu the preferred OS for many developers, something which both macOS and Windows don't have first class support for. This while Apple is chasing off macOS developers with expensive and less powerful hardware. Microsoft is coming back with a vengeance though, their new focus and work on things like a proper terminal and better linux subsystem makes them an option again in the eyes of some of my colleagues who before never even considered running Windows for their development environments.

If you guys stay on point, you will conquer the developers market the way Apple did in the late 00's. Which I think was critical for Apple's mobile ecosystem as well.

> wins backing from NVidia, Intel and AMD.

That's the heart of the problem. Intel is fine with their free drivers, and AMDGPU will be a good compromise, but NVIDIA will have to do all the work to implement a driver specifically for Wayland. Since AFAIK, Wayland requires KMS, NVIDIA is far far behind.

It isn't Wayland/Mir holding Wayland/Mir back. It's the proprietary driver blobs.